Extraordinary subsurface mesoscale eddy detected in the southeast of Okinawa in February 2002

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 17, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Takikawa, Tetsutaro ^a   Ichikawa, Hiroshi ^b,c   Ichikawa, Kaoru ^b,d   Kawae, Satoshi ^e  

^a NATIONAL FISHERIES UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SURFACE WATERS;

HYDROGRAPHY; POTENTIAL DENSITY; SUBSURFACE MESOSCALE EDDY;

HYDROGEOLOGY;

MESOSCALE EDDY; MODE WATER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; WATER MASS;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); WORLD;

EID: 27544470581     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023842     Document Type: Article

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